About us

About Us

Epidemic Sound was founded in 2009 with the sole purpose of creating possibilities and benefits around music in all stages – both for the ones who compose it and the ones who use it. We’ve achieved that by collecting music in an ever-growing library, to which you can subscribe for unlimited use or license tracks per second. Both equal music clearance on all platforms, worldwide in perpetuity. Today we have over 25K high-quality tracks at the tip of your fingers. Go ahead and create!

THE JOURNEY OF A GREAT TUNE

THE FOUNDERS

PEER ÅSTRÖm

Music producer

Peer is a prominent producer, currently holding the world record in most chart entries on the US Billboard/Itunes with productions for Madonna, Kelly Clarkson and Enrique Iglesias. He currently produces all the music for the FOX hit show Glee.

JAN ZACHRISSON

Broadcasting executive / Production company founder

Jan has a history in music but is more known as the co-founder of TV4, the largest commercial broadcaster in Sweden. He is also the co-founder of Zodiak Television, one of the world’s largest TV-production companies.

HJALMAR WINBLADH

Online visionary

Hjalmar is a serial entrepreneur within the Internet industry who is frequently commissioned as a key speaker for the most prestigious IT summits world wide. He is also the founder of Rebtel and Sendit AB.

DAVID STENMARCK

Music producer

David has launched and owns one of the most successful shows in Swedish entertainment history and has produced many hit singles for international superstars such as Celine Dion and Westlife.

OSCAR HÖGLUND

Management professional

Oscar is the CEO of Epidemic Sound. He has a background with the Stockholm School of Economics and the Boston Consulting Group prior to joining Zodiak Television in 2004. At Zodiak Television he was a member of the management team.

PREVIOUS ACCOMPLISHMENTS

WE ARE PASSIONATE ABOUT THREE THINGS

VISUAL CONTENT

Zodiak Media is one of the world’s top 3 independent media content groups. Annual revenues of €600m and 45 companies in 20 countries.

The TV4 Group is the Nordic region’s leading tv company and includes 40 TV channels in the region.

Over the past 20 years ES-founders have produced over €1000m of content. The last big production was ”The Girl With The Dragoon Tattoo”.

AUDIO CONTENT

Nominated for nineteen Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards and fifty-seven other awards Glee is a monster.

In 2011 ES-founder Per Åström passed Elvis Presley as the most featured artist on the Billboard Top 100-list.

ES-founders have sold over 150 million albums and downloads. We hold the world record in terms of most songs in Top 200 on iTunes ever.

INNOVATION

13 million users, 1,000,000,000 minutes: Rebtel is currently the world’s second largest mobile VoIP (Voice Over IP) company.

SendIT pioneered mobile Internet in the early 90’s. In 1999 Microsoft acquired SendIT for €150m.

Over the last 10 years ES-founders have started over 15 companies. The latest is Wrapp, seeing investments from amongst others Reid Hoffmann.